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My Medium Journey
So Far…
Why Did I Start?
This has been a question I’ve been asking myself every day. I’m trying to make the time to be able to write on Medium but so far what I have posted and published on Medium hasn’t yielded many positive or profitable responses. Maybe I could do better work with SEO or I could sit and write a daily piece but genuinely, some people don’t have the time.
I started because I saw something in this site. I saw the freedom for a person to be able to write what they wanted to discuss or were passionate about, whether that be fiction or nonfiction, stories or articles, poems or gibberish.
I also saw a potential chance for me to actually earn in my spare time when I had it by working hard on promoting my writing and creating engagement on my published pieces. But I was hit with a wall. That first wall was the knowledge that you only get paid by member-only views and I have a lot of friends who aren’t on Medium, so outside views don’t count at all. That was discouraging.
I noticed some types of articles getting more views than others but that’s my second wall. Why should I write something I had no interest in writing? I’m not going to write something that people think is a popular subject. I joined for my own expression, for my own stories and work to be there for people to see. It was a…
